Creepiest of craps...

Can’t recall when was the last time I felt this choked in my head। Everything is a blur। The more I try to keep my home, school, tuitions and virtual life separate and isolated from one another, the more entwined they get। I try not to think about my “virtual” life in my “real” life, my “home” life (cousins and all) in my “school” life etc. and I sometimes DO succeed in doing that. But, looking at the larger picture, its like, the more one tries to contain oneself, the more they tend to break their own rules…but that does not mean we stopped making rules.

I know I sound like I am babbling (okay, I am doing just that. So what?) and I am not sure if I am going to hit the publish key once I am done with it, but I am writing it all the same. Puking my thoughts in the crudest possible way I know. And I am pretty sure whatever I key in here, is hardly going to make any collective sense.

From what I can recall from my days around 5 years back, I was this really insouciant funny little creature. Hardly ever caring about things happening around me, or caring about what people would think of me. Friends were never really “important”…I was too ambitious to be “wasting” my time chatting with “friends” about “other friends” or discussing the usual stuff that my coevals would spend hours doing.

Now, however, it’s different. Different as in really DIFFERENT. I never saw it happening like this. I am still that insouciant little creature but I have started caring about what my friends and cousins think of me(If you are wondering why I emphasize so much on my cousins, its because they are all almost the same age as mine…we make this whole big naughty group which hangs out together every other week-without any strings holding us from having a blast-we are family so our parents are pretty secure too :p)

Its like, when these people-who know me for what I am at heart-say that something is bad about me, they really mean it. And I guess their advices/warnings deserve a thought or two on my part. I don’t start hating myself for being silly or blame them for being ruthlessly truthful (okay that’s going too far, I have never been bad enough for people to become “ruthlessly truthful” to me) but I do make a conscious effort of changing myself.

Now, the thing that’s troubling me is that, though I have always given way to “sieved” feedback but I can’t recall not being able to concentrate on any other thing when somebody said I was changing for the worse and never cared to elaborate. (Before your thoughts go wandering in wilderness, let me add that the person is a great friend and not somebody “extra-special” that they would make me think for hours together. I know her for around 5 years now.) May be I am making a mountain out of a mole-hill and brooding over irrelevant things(which I think I AM doing) but I really need to get this out of my system to concentrate on other things.

I mean I would never ever sit down all gloomy and lost in the midst of some of the funniest people I know! I did just that to my amazement (shock). These people did manage to bring a few laughs out of me (usually they try and make their laughs heard over my incessant laughter). Once I had written about this (because I cant tell it to anyone, and I need to get it out of me, so all I could do was write-scribble that is-while my physics teacher taught some nonsense about electric dipole and electric fields) it felt a lot lighter…I am not sure but I guess I stopped smiling/laughing for about 10 minutes out of the whole hour and half that we were in the bio lab. Looks like I was struggling with this diagram in those 10 minutes, and others were having their share of laughter seeing me “work” for a change.["moods really swing" somebody said!] A pleasant and rare sight for my classmates! (Sakshi Arora working! Arora coz there are three sakshi-s in my class) But that hour and a half of me being normal (laughing and commenting and cracking the worst of PJs ever;and the one-liners,my trademark!) wasn’t enough for these people…for sharma(she read that scribble..and) sent me the best of mails ever…talking about how one of her friends was behaving stupidly (that friend was me,hehee) and nikki sent some smses in her peculiar style- “hello ms messed up, abi condition theek hai kya? Subah kya tilli lagi padi thi?”
But everything’s pretty much fine now. And all’s well that ends well (or is it?)
Lol.
Anyways, the irony :- uhhh…too heavy to write in here. I’ll break hearts if I mention it. Would just sign off with saying that old isn’t always gold.

"The HT write up"

I was asked to write a piece about this experiment that we did (I had a hand-okay,just a finger-in it too) in our school's biotechnology lab. I have better, as in more colourful versions, of the same but this one is closest to what my biotechnology teacher wanted it to be like. (something of a hybrid of a feature and a news report)

I hope Anil sir (My journalism teacher..) could read it. He would finally be happy, with me having learnt to keep a tab on what I write...according to him, I always overdo it in the excitement(of writing!) and then end-up writing one, long enough for two! "Sakshi, its beautiful, but useless." argh..i'll never ever forget his words. But had it not been for these few words (or something that meant it), you would be seeing a lot more trash on this page. uhh...read the article for now, gotta run for dinner!



“Impossible is Nothing.” The words have given heart to millions of people since time immemorial but they never apparently sounded as true and practical as they sound now. What seemed to be a dream and far fetched fantasy sometime back, is now a reality. Not long back we would “dream” of emulating birds, now, we “plan” to live on moon. The transition from “dreaming” to “planning” was not overnight. It took a lot of time and toiling on the part of scientists and researchers who worked round the clock for a seemingly impossible thing and were laughed at for that.

Today, we know and realize that everything is possible and thus, the way we look at this world has changed drastically. Today, we are moving fast and the world is moving faster. All that is required for now is to keep up the pace of advancement and cultivate a healthy breed of scientists who can keep the momentum going. The schools play a major role in this and realizing the same, the CBSE has introduced subjects like information technology and biotechnology in the curriculum. The schools on their part also realize the importance of these technical subjects in shaping up the career of a student and do off-leak things in an attempt to come up with something new that would lay a better base for the pupil’s future.

Recently the biotechnology department of MGD Girls’ School has achieved this incredible feat of developing a healthy marigold plant from a 0.5cm long piece of the apical stem. The technique of plant tissue culture or micro propagation is not new but the procedure requires the experimentation to take place in a contamination free environment. Meeting the standards of such a technical experiment (it is prescribed in the Rajasthan University syllabus) in a school laboratory is ab achievement in itself and a first for any public school of Rajasthan.

In the experiment performed in the biotech laboratory of MGD Girls’ School, the plant was developed over the span of a month from the callus. A special media was used, that provided nutrients required for the growth of the plant. The plantlet was transferred from one container to the other over the course of the experiment in sterile conditions and the appurtenances used in the experiment were decontaminated using the autoclave. The plantlet was kept in controlled environmental conditions in a B.O.D. (Biological Oxygen Demand) and the amount of light reaching the plant and the temperature were carefully regulated. The plantlet, when strong enough was transferred to a pot and exposed to normal temperature and light.

Micro propagation is seen as one of the revolutions in biotechnology and offers exciting prospects in the field of sciences. It can be used to conserve rare or endangered plant species-which is the need of the hour. The agriculture industry has high hopes pinned up on this technique as it can be used to cross-pollinate distantly related species in order to develop a hybrid and to produce clean plant material from virus infected stock. It provides protection to the plant against diseases and the plant can be grown and made to flower even in off season. It can be used as a method of propagation of plants, which produce less or no seeds as this technique grows the plant without involving any seeds. With all this and more, tissue culture promises to bring a wave of transition and what better than the young riding the wave. Let us hope its not just a storm in the cup and does materializes into something worth the efforts.


P.S.--Did i mention that one of my classmates thought it was like written by a "journalist"...i know its an exaggeration. But felt good. hmmmm...she unknowingly encouraged me at a time when i needed it more than ever before. Okay now I can go on writing about what all I felt about this but will shut up, for I know I'll never be able to put it across to you people even if I use up all my resources..."May be you will never know, for I'll never show"...sounds familiar (I guess its some song..)

And just thought of adding this--one of these people i know, a journalist, read this, and thought it was crap.Wont go as anything.Does not fit in any of the criterias. Coming from me, useless just as ever..hehee